Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams closes his eyes and grimaces as the plays his fiddle on the stage of the West End Gate bar in New York, N.Y. An unidentified African American man stands in the center of the...

An unidentified white male pianist, farthest left in the photograph, sits diagonally on the piano bench, turns his body toward the keys, and closes his eyes as he plays. Standing beside the bench...

Claude "Fiddler" Williams stands on the interior steps of the Jazz Church, Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, 54th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York, New York, smiling as he plays his fiddle with...

Group photo with (L-R) Paul Gunther, Little Brother Montgomery, unidentified, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jay McShann, Claude Williams (holding sheet of paper), Fats Dennis, Orestie "Rusty" Tucker (holding a...

Publicity photograph of "Sappy," a bluegrass and cowboy music performer playing a broken acoustic guitar, wearing a worn cowboy hat sideways on his head, and squinting at the camera as he sings...